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Today’s Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus makes me think about the catholic context in which I grew up. \u00a0Whether spoken out loud or not, the impression I had was that devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was a piety mostly for working class Catholics, for the simple minded, and for uneducated women. \u00a0Images of the Sacred Heart were deemed to be kitschy. \u00a0We even had a derogatory term for a particular kind of pious look (i.e., sweet and heavenward) that translates into English as a “heart of Jesus-face.” \u00a0You did not want to be seen wearing one of those.<\/p>\n

More recently, Mark Chaves,a sociologist of religion at Duke, has collated features of North American liturgical life with class\/status\/economic standing of\u00a0worshipers. \u00a0We are used by now to acknowledging how ethnicity shapes liturgical life — a Hispanic Catholic worships differently from a German Catholic. \u00a0But how much do we think through the connections between class\/status and liturgical and devotional life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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